Home savings bank



Oct. 2, 1928.

- c. w. CHERRY HOME SAVINGS BANK Filed July 27, 1925 gvvuentot (mu M4 6750?) V Patented Get. 2, 1928.

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CARL V]. CHEER/1 ,033 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,

HOME savrnes BAN Application filed :nu 2'7, leesv Serial no. 46,428

shell structure'which has but one fiat surface upon which to stand it, and when stood thereon will effect a concealment of the coin slot or other evidence denoting it to be a bank.

The accompanying drawing shows the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bank with the coin receiving flat end uppermost.

Figure 2 is a plan of the circular head with most of the upper plate and the door removed showing the lock.

Figure 3 is an elevation of Figure 2 in section taken along the line 3-3 of Figure 2, and also'showing a portion of the shell rolled over the upper plate.

Figure 4 1s a view-f the under side of the door,

Figure 5 a detached view ofthe bolt ing spring member, and

Figure 6 a detached view of one of the bolts. 7 1

Briefly described, my bank consists of'a bowl shaped shell 1 with a head plate 2 at the open end having a hinged door 3'and a coin receiving slot 4.

The head is permanently crimped in place by the shell edge being rolled over it as shown at 5, and the hinged door is normally locked in closed position by a pair of spring actuated bolts 6. a

The bolts are of iron or steel and inaccessible from without the bank and may only be drawn for opening the door by means of powerful magnets applied at the right spots to the outer casing. The special magnet ar rangement for pulling the bolts constitutes a separate invention filed by me under Serial No. 46,429, July 27, 1925. v

In more detail the casing or shell 1 is pref-v throwerably of non-magnetic material, such asbrass, and my preferred form is bowl shaped as shown, rlbbed for extra stiflness. The head comprises an upper plate 2 and a lower plate 2; also of brass, and spaced by spacers -7, 8 all secured together by screws or rivets 9.-

The door 3 is hinged to the head preferably by engaging an upturned lip 10 formed on the lower plate 2, and is spring actuated to swing outwardly through means ofa small wlre spring 11 passing through a. hole in the lip 10 and secured to the under plate by a rivet head 9. V

. This door has a pair of hasps 12 projectmg from its under side adapted to receive the tine 13 of the sliding bolts These bolts are of steel or iron and are guided for sliding action'in a channel formed by bending up the lower plate as indicated in Figures 2 and 3 and each bolt is provided with an enlarged head 6 for acting on by the magnets and which heads also limit the outward'movement of the bolts by striking the casing at a time when the door hasps are free for withdrawal from'the hasp slots 14 so that as the bolts are simultaneously pulled by magnetic means the spring door will fly open.

Figure 2 shows the lower bolt as pulled open by the pull of an electric magnet 19. I

The bolts are spring actuated by means lying along one side of the coin slot, and these springs while fairly strong yield to the superior force of the powerful magnets intended to be used, thus insuring that no small magnets as used by children could open the lock, even though a child knew where to apply the magnets and which is not likely.

- The spacing blocks 7 and 8 are preferably also: of non-magnetic material'so as not to influence the sliding of the bolts should the latter retain any residual magnetism. H The coin slot 4 is of the usual construction adapted to receive which ever maximum size coin thebank is designed for, and it is here shown with a pivoted side .plate'17 normally closing the slot, through the action ofa small spring 18. I

Thus it will'be seen that after colns are placed inthe bank, they cannot be taken out except by opening the main door, and the door can only be opened by the appl cation of magnets to a plurality of speclal pomts at the outside of the shell of the device, also of light springs 15 heldin a strip of metal 16 i that the form'of the device suggests standing also givesit the appearance of a paper g quite free from resemblance to a n thus giving an additional measure of security to cylindrical wall and a bottom, a door-for said its contents. .bottom and vswingable into open position l claim z- V I a when released, a pair of locks for said door 15 1. A cylindrical bank having a Spring a tu- .andpdisposed in a chord cutting the circular 5 Med door in its flat surface, adapted to swing bottom on a line other tha the diameter,

it to open position when released locks having spring means for urging said looks into lockspring-projeoted bolts for locking said (1001', ing position, said locks being moved into open said lOCkS being'movable lI'ltO llIIlOCklllg PO- 7 position by magnets when the latter re dis- 20 sition by magnets disposed exteriorly of the posed adjacent to the exterior surface of said l0 casing and in alignment with the movement casing and in a position coinciding With the of said locks. chord common to both locks. I V 2. A bank comprising a casing having .a V a CARL W. CHERRY. 

